On a conference call with reporters a few minutes ago, AHIP president and CEO Karen Ignagni addressed skeptics of the new PriceWaterhouseCoopers report her group commissioned and released last night.
“This is a world-class firm with a stellar reputation,” she said.
Ignagni said AHIP had its own “sophisticated modeling capability” in-house, and contracted with PWC for a second opinion on the numbers AHIP has been projected “for months” during the creation of the Baucus health care bill.
The PWC audit “confirms what we were seeing in our own analyses,” she said.
